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Louise Slater is originally from London and now lives and works in Yorkshire. She gained a Degree in Graphic Design at Northumbria University (where she specialised in printmaking and illustration) before continuing her studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has taught art and design at various schools and colleges in the capital and is developing a line of homeware products using her linocut designs and bird motifs.

Dorothea Smartt is a performance artist and poet of Barbadian heritage, based in South London. Her poetry draws upon Caribbean identities, memories and myth. She has published several collections of poetry, including most recently Ship Shape (Peepal Tree Press, 2011) and has been Poet in Residence at Brixton Market and Live Artist at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Catherine Smith is a teacher and writer of poetry, fiction and radio drama, based in East Sussex. Her collection Lip was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has published several other collections including most recently The New Cockaigne (The Frogmore Press, 2014). Jellybelly, a supernatural rom-com, was broadcast May 2005.

Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749 – 1806) wrote her first book of poetry, Elegiac Sonnets (1784), in debtor’s prison. She wrote to support her children, and also published children’s books and novels, including Emmeline (1788); but saw herself first and foremost as a poet. Beachy Head and Other Poems was published in 1807. Praised by both Wordsworth and Coleridge, she is now recognised as an important Romantic writer.

Maggie Smith is an American poet, writer, editor tand teacher based in Columbus, Ohio. She has published several books of poetry and prose, including Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) and a memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, which was a New York Times bestseller. Poems and essays have also appeared in The Guardian, the Paris Review and the anthology The Best American Poetry.

Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971) lived all her life in Palmer’s Green, North London, and wrote fiction and poetry. Her several collections of poetry were often accompanied by her own quirky line drawings and throughout the 1960s she was a popular performer of her work.